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November 28, 2016

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A busy day to start the week

Customers up but dollars down for the Black Friday weekend.

More than 154 million consumers will shop over Thanksgiving weekend, up from 151 million shoppers in 2015, according to the annual Thanksgiving weekend results survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics.

Average spending per person over Thanksgiving weekend totaled $289.19, down slightly from $299.60* last year. With an average of $214.13 specifically going toward gifts or 74 percent of total purchases. (NRF release)

A fight over a parking space while shopping on Thanksgiving reportedly escalated into a road rage incident that left one man dead in Nevada.

KOLO-TV reports two men were in the Walmart parking lot in Reno around 6 p.m. on Thursday. Police say both were armed with weapons when they began arguing; a 33-year-old man was shot dead in the store's driveway off East Second Street.

According to the Associated Press, no arrests have been made, but an investigation is ongoing. The victim has not been identified. (Syracuse.com)

Our Talk Media News correspondent Victoria Jones was in Cuba recently and gave her perspective on the death of Fidel Castro. Castro was a towering world figure who engaged powerful emotions by all sides.

His supporters in Havana described him as a tireless defender of the poor.Castro was "a giant of the Third World", said Agustin Diaz Cartaya, 85, who joined Castro in the 1953 attack in eastern Cuba that launched the revolution. "No one has done more for the Third World than Fidel Castro."....

Critics say Castro drove the country into economic ruin, denied basic freedoms to 11 million Cubans at home and forced more than a million others into exile....(Aljazerra.com 11-26-16)

Time Magazine is prepping its annual Person of the Year. We took your calls and texts on who you think it should be.

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange has overtaken President-elect Donald Trump for the lead in the online poll of who readers think should be TIME’s Person of the Year in 2016, as 1:00 p.m. Eastern on Monday. (Time.com 11-28-16)

City council met with community leaders and others during two work sessions to discuss how the ordinance should be worded.

Mayor Glenn Elliott believes the (human rights) commission and City Council have included everyone in the process to date. While the draft — an amended version of the city’s existing human rights ordinance — now accounts for sexual orientation and gender identity, it also includes classifications such as race, sex and disability, in addition to recognizing the First Amendment rights of religious institutions (Intelligencer.net 11-28-16)

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